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Roots: Waiting For A Miracle

Original title: Juured: Oodates imet

2018 | Documentary | Director: Aljona Suržikova

The biggest pain – the loss of a child – helps to see the beauty in life. This film is about life and how miraculous it is that we are alive.

A woman’s biggest joy is giving the gift of life to a new human being. The biggest pain – the loss of a child – helps to see the beauty in life. This film is about life and how miraculous it is that we are alive.
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Take It or Leave It

Original title: Võta või jäta

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Liina Triškina-Vanhatalo

What would you do if one day a newborn baby was put on your hands and said: take it or leave it!

One sleepy Saturday morning a 30-year-old construction worker Erik gets some earth shattering news: his ex-girlfriend Moonika whom he hasn’t even seen for the past six months is about to go into labour. She however is not ready for motherhood and if Erik doesn’t want the kid either, the little girl will be put up for adoption. Take it or leave it!
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The Little Comrade

Original title: Seltsimees laps

2018 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Moonika Siimets

Six-year-old Leelo’s mother is deported to a Siberian prison camp during Stalinist repressions. The little girl tries to be as good as she can in the belief that this will bring her mother back home.

It is 1950 in the Soviet Estonia and the Stalinist terror machine works at full steam – 6-year-old Leelo’s school principal mother is arrested before her very eyes. “If you’re a good kid, I’ll be back soon,” are her mother’s last words as she is taken away at gunpoint. So Leelo is on her very best behaviour, but yet her mother does not return. A fear creeps into the child’s soul that it is her fault her mother was taken. The confusion only grows as “good” and “bad” no longer seem to hold any meaning in these troubled times. Why ...
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Margus

2017 | Students film, Documentary | Director: Hõbe Ilus

Film about mother and her son.

Margus, 17, opened his eyes to the world earlier than planned. Ever since, he has been guided through life by his loving family. This film is about Margus and his mother and the unconditional love that unfolds through shared creativity and the sense of presence.
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The Swan

Original title in Icelandic: Svanurinn

2017 | Feature film, Full length feature | Director: Asa Helga Hjörleifsdottir

Meeting a swan may be an introspective experience, similarly to facing the nature of Iceland, its magnificent mountains, watery grasslands and powerful winds. For a nine-year-old girl Sól all this won't be a free choice since her family sends her away to the wild and lonely nature because of a theft.

There is a beast living on the top of a mountain in Iceland. It appears to human beings as a swan. When looking in the eye of a man, the beast will see the person completely through and foretells all about the life of the person. Meeting the swan is an introspective experience, similarly to facing the nature of Iceland, its magnificent mountains, watery grasslands and powerful winds. This is often the reason why so many people wish to travel to Iceland and drive around the country despite harsh weather conditions. It is not a free choice for the nine-year-old ...
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Close Relations

Original title (in Russian): Rodnye

2016 | Documentary | Director: Vitali Manski

Vitaly Mansky’s documentary journey through Ukraine visits members of his own family to show the reality behind the headlines in this divided country.

Russian citizen and Soviet-born Ukrainian native Vitaly Mansky crisscrosses Ukraine to explore Ukrainian society after the Maidan revolution as mirrored within his own large Ukrainian family. They live scattered all across the country: in Lviv, Odessa, the separatist area in Donbass, and Sevastopol on Crimea. The film is looking for reasons of the conflict after which citizens of a single country found themselves on a different sides of barricades including director’s own family. The main narrative takes place in the here and now, starting with the turning point of ex-president Victor Yanukovych’s flight to Russia. But below the main narrative ...
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Living Together a la Sri Lanka

Original title: Kooselu Sri Lanka moodi

2016 | Documentary | Director: Mati Kark

The authors of the documentary are searching for the formulas of integration and peaceful co-habitations together with the residents of post-civil war Sri Lanka – tea pickers, fishermen, sellers, workers of the tourism centre and especially guide Michael.

In 2016 it was seven years since the end of the civil war in Sri Lanka. Some people don't even remember who the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were and for what they were fighting. At the same time, we are witnessing the growth of extremism in Europe as well as the military conflict in Ukraine. It seems that the history of Sri Lanka civil war serves as the best example how easily increasing jingoism can lead us to aggressive conflicts. But what makes people hate? Where is the formula of integration and peaceful co-existence? The authors of the documentary ...
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Allan, A Man at the Age of Christ

Original title: Allan

2014 | Documentary, Portrait | Director: Arko Okk

If the world is blind, Allan isn’t. Allan is a man in at the age of Christ. His life is colorful. He likes cinema, cars and sports.

Allan is a man at the age of Christ. His life is colorful. He likes cinema, cars and sports. He is keen of Kung Fu. He likes funny as well as dark side of the life. His life is colorful also because he lives with his mother, a former opera singer, and his stepfather, a psychiatrist and a former parliament member. He has a work, he has dreams. But the real colors are missing from his life. In his dreams there are no colors either, because he is blind and he has never seen the colors. In this story we concentrate ...
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Red Hat

2014 | Students film, Short | Director: Marleen Moss

The story is about a sweet, little and energetic boy who doesn't leave anyone cold. When little boy sees his mother struggling with handling the life, he feels obligation to fill the missing role of the father and despite of his young age he gives his best to perform this obligation. He faces different obstacles, but he never forgets to smile.
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The Russians on Crow Island

Original title: Varesesaare venelased

2012 | Documentary, Problem oriented | Director: Sulev Keedus

Portrait documentary by Sulev Keedus about the scum of the Russian community in Narva - the young people with asocial background who lack courage, hope and will to get out of their hopeless situation.

The Crow Island on the River Narva was the place where Krenholm Manufacturing Company was founded in 1857. The company provided work for 13 000 employees during its best days. The textile factory was closed for good in 2010. During the past few decades, more than ten thousand workers have lost their job. Younger Russians, the descendants of the generation of Krenholm employees, living in Narva tell their dreary story of life. Their harsh monologues tell about abandonment, street life, alcohol, drugs and prison. Most of them have grown up with severe mental and physical traumatic experiences. They have no ...
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